Thursday, November 19, 2009

It has been many years ago when we were in the same location, thinking as young men what would we do next, as our future was wide open for us. I could relate to these young men who are leaving next to my house when I took this photograph couple of days ago.

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Saturday, October 24, 2009

I observed the original image in W J T Mitchell Picture Theory couple of days ago. It is a postcard included in the Colonial Harem by Malek Alloula. Mitchell wrote about them that they possessed 'a pornographic beauty'. If there is a photograph with an obvious punctum this is one. Manipulated image transformation here relates to its cultural implications.

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Even though background of the creation of an image not necessarily influences its meaning, I recalled today that this Coffee Cup photograph (1992) was created after a long phone conversation I have had in my Los Angeles Studio with Robert Irwin. This was a one shot only, done on Polaroid 55 positive/negative film using a 4x5 camera.

Thursday, August 06, 2009

While touring the Sharon with a bike today, we visited the town of Kalansawa and the neighboring moshav Azriel. In the photo, one of the moshav original houses from around 1951 and a humus coffee house in Kalanswa. The gap between the two places was striking and it signifies the two clashing ethos existing side by side in Israel.

Friday, June 19, 2009

Sunday, June 14, 2009

The hero's main feat is to overcome the monster of darkness: it is the long-hoped-for and expected triumph of consciousness over the unconscious. The coming of consciousness was probably the most tremendous experience of primeval times, for with it a world came into being whose existence no one had suspected before. "And God said, 'Let there be light"' is the projection of that immemorial experience of the separation of consciousness from the unconscious.Jung "The Psychology of the Child Archetype" (1940). In CW 9, Part I: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. P.284

Thursday, May 07, 2009

Friday, April 03, 2009

I remembered this quote from Nietzsche from the first time I have read it while studying in U.C Santa Barbara:

That the value of the world lies in our interpretation (-that other interpretations than merely human ones are perhaps somewhere possible-); the previous interpretations have been perspective valuations by virtue of which we can survive in life, i.e. in the will to power, for the growth of power; that every elevation of man brings with it the overcoming of narrower interpretations; that every strengthening and increase of power opens up new perspectives and means believing in new horizons – this permeates my writing. The world with which we are concerned is false, i.e. not a fact but a fable, an approximation on the basis of a meager sum of observations; it is ‘in flux’, as something in state of becoming, as a falsehood always changing but never getting near the truth: for there is no ‘truth’.
Friedrich Nietzsche from ‘The Will to Power’1885-1886

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

The delicate white flowers on the coffee bushes in my garden turned to red beans which fascinated their viewers. This week we were able to produce real flavorful coffee from them. I guess you can grow coffee in Israel.

Friday, February 20, 2009

Stepping into an alleyway behind Dizingoff St. 123, I all of the sudden realized why these locations hold endless fascination for me. Behind the fronts, facades there are hidden stories. Ones that their meaning is allusive. You can sense it touch it and go away. Yet a certain sensations remains, some deeper that you may realize, as seen in this photograph I took tonight: Much like the toils of literature.